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Event commemorating Bohdan Rubchak (1935-2018)

October 28, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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  • « Lecture “Letters from the ‘Old Country’: Understanding Ukrainian Transatlantic Family Correspondence in the 20th Century”
  • Conference commemorating of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its unification with the Ukrainian National Republic »

Event commemorating Bohdan Rubchak (1935-2018), a well-known Ukrainian poet, scholar, literary critic,

member of the New York Group of Poets and professor-emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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October 28, 2018
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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  • « Lecture “Letters from the ‘Old Country’: Understanding Ukrainian Transatlantic Family Correspondence in the 20th Century”
  • Conference commemorating of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its unification with the Ukrainian National Republic »

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The presentation will explore Makhno’s multilayered novel about journeys and returns, memory and creativity, history and personal experience. Set between Buchach and Jerusalem, the novel weaves together the lives of writers, philosophical reflection, parable-like narratives, and a novel-within-a-novel structure. The central character, writer Viktor Preisner, lives on the outskirts of Riverhead and has spent years working on a novel about Gospel times. Two small figurines—an angel and a donkey, souvenirs from Jerusalem—sit on his desk. After a devastating storm, he discovers the same figurines in a ruined house, raising questions about the fate of his manuscript and the meaning of memory, loss, and return.

The novel has been described by Ukrainian literary critics as a meditation on memory, creativity, migration, history, loss, and the elemental forces of fire and water, as well as a work that expands the possibilities of contemporary Ukrainian émigré literature.

The novel The Angel and the Donkey: With Poems About Fire and Water is stylistically diverse. Yet this rich palette of styles is precisely what makes it a distinctive hallmark of Vasyl Makhno’s unique voice – a mature master of prose.

— Ihor Nabytovych, Zbruch

The Angel and  the Donkey transforms from an émigré novel about a Ukrainian in America into an illustration of a new mode of existence for Ukrainian literature.

— Oksana Shchur, Ukrainska Pravda

At the level of plot, The Angel and the Donkey is a novel about two writers connected by the town of Buchach in the Ternopil region and by life trajectories that share striking similarities. Yet, contrary to what one might expect, the novel is not primarily about the act of writing itself. Rather, in a broader sense, it is a work about life.

—Zoya Shevchuk, Krytyka
The Angel and the Donkey: With Poems About Fire and Water
In her presentation, Prof. Tamara Hundorova will focus on Kobylianska’s feminism as a complex intellectual project that emerged at the intersection of European ideas of women’s emancipation, Nietzsche's concept of high culture, and modern nation-building. Particular attention will be paid to the notion of the melancholic 'new woman' and its autobiographical significance in Kobylianska’s work. The discussion will address the tension between feminine nature and spiritual self-realization, individual freedom and social expectations, and emancipation and motherhood. The presentation will also consider Kobylianska’s self-identification within the context of Ukrainian and German literature.

Prof. Tamara Hundorova is a literary and cultural studies scholar, a Doctor of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is an associate scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, dean of the Ukrainian Free University, and a senior research fellow at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is a member of PEN Ukraine. She is the author of several seminal studies, among them The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s; Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma; Леся Українка. Книги Сивілли; Кітч і література. Травестії; Франко і/не Каменяр; Femina melancholica. Стать і культура в гендерній утопії Ольги Кобилянської, and others. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship, the fellowships of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship, the Shklar Fellowship at Harvard and the Foreign Visitors Fellowship at Hokkaido University. Prof. Hundorova has taught at Princeton University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the Ukrainian Free University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the Ukrainian Catholic University, and the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
The Feminism of Olha Kobylianska: Melancholy, High Culture, and Nationalism
New Paradigms in Historical Research after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Does the empire exist within Ukrainian Studies, and if so, how should we respond?  Earlier efforts to reframe Ukrainian history were guided by derussification,  desovietization, and decommunization. The Russian invasion of Ukraine intensified efforts to decolonize and deimperialize knowledge production across disciplines. But what do these paradigms mean exactly for historians of the region and their efforts to rethink and reinterpret the Ukrainian historical experience in light of recent events? Four distinguished historians discuss new paradigms for reframing the Ukrainian past.

Steven Seegel (The University of Texas at Austin)

Frank E. Sysyn (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)

Yaroslav Zhuravlov (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Moderator: Catherine Wanner (Shevchenko Scientific Society/Penn State University)


Steven Seegel is Professor (tenured, full rank) in the Department of European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press, 2013), and Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012). He has been a contributor to the fourth and fifth volumes of Chicago’s international history of cartography series and has translated over 300 entries from Russian and Polish for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, in multiple volumes, published jointly by USHMM and Indiana University Press. Professor Seegel is a former director at Harvard University of the Ukrainian Research Institute’s summer exchange program.

Frank E. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, and editor in chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. A specialist in Ukrainian and Polish history, he is the author of Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985), Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and studies on the Khmelnytsy Uprising, Ukrainian historiography, and early modern Ukrainian political culture. He is also coauthor, with Serhii Plokhy, of Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (2003). He is editor in chief of the publication of the collected works of Mykhailo Zubrytsky (1856-1919).

Yaroslav Zhuravlov is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he has worked since 2024 at the Imre Kertész Kolleg within the profile area Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience. His current research project, Eastern European Debates of the Holocaust in Exile and Emigration, explores the intellectual and historical dimensions of Holocaust debates in Eastern European exile and émigré communities. In 2026, he conducted archival research in the United States at the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) in the United States, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States (UVAN), the Ukrainian History and Education Center (UHEC), and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives. His research and teaching interests include East Central European Studies, particularly Ukraine, the USSR, and Poland, as well as Jewish history, Genocide Studies, Memory Studies, and Oral History.
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